00:03Plus, the moonwalk, the lean.
00:06Michael Jackson's most iconic moves inside his nephew Jafar's dance boot camp.
00:13I knew how challenging this would be.
00:16That's coming up.
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00:23Like mother, like daughter.
00:26And now to some more family ties.
00:28Jafar Jackson is a very convincing Michael Jackson.
00:32His uncle in the new movie, Michael.
00:38From his iconic moonwalk, or how about that smooth criminal lean.
00:45Don't quite have the right equipment for that.
00:49Anyways, nobody moved like the king of pop.
00:52Well, two of the guys who helped MJ rule the dance floor
00:55were his longtime choreographers and collaborators, Rich and Tone.
00:59Well, now they're stepping up to the challenge of training his nephew to move just like Michael.
01:04Here's Mona.
01:06I knew how challenging this would be to take on playing Michael Jackson.
01:13And it was not easy.
01:16Laying like this.
01:18Yeah.
01:18I'm always on the wrong side.
01:20The king of pop's dance moves were as iconic as his music.
01:27The moonwalk.
01:28The lean.
01:32One of a kind.
01:33It's natural.
01:35It's a flow.
01:35All together.
01:37And not easily copied.
01:39I love challenges, and I wanted to prove to myself, my family, and the filmmakers that I can do this.
01:46But when Michael's own nephew, Jafar Jackson, slid into those moonwalking shoes to become Michael, he would not quit.
01:54I started to rehearse for hours and hours upon hours, dancing until my feet would bleed or them go numb.
02:02Let's do it again.
02:03Yeah, I missed that.
02:03Yeah, yeah.
02:05This behind-the-scenes look shows just how hard Jafar pushed himself to mirror MJ with some help from Michael's
02:11own choreographers, Rich and Tone, and director Antoine Fuqua.
02:15How we start is how we finish.
02:17So let's start with some fire.
02:21Day one.
02:22All I could think of was, can Jafar really pull this off?
02:28Man, when the music started, he hit those first few moves.
02:34I mean, this guy killed it.
02:37Antoine has worked with megastars like Denzel Washington, Will Smith, and Mark Wahlberg.
02:41But getting the opportunity to direct a movie about the global superstar was next level.
02:46Michael was a big influence in my career as a director.
02:50To be a young black man in this country and see people that look like me able to achieve international
02:55fame, it meant that there was no ceiling.
02:57The film focuses on Michael's massive breakout when he went solo, leaving the Jackson Five.
03:03I don't think you can understand Michael Jackson as a human being unless you were back.
03:08Y'all want to work in a steel mill like me for the rest of your days?
03:11No, sir.
03:12So you get the backstory of his domineering father, Joe, played by Coleman Domingo.
03:17I need to think.
03:18I told you what to think.
03:20I think it's going to be amazing, yeah.
03:22And as for Michael's scandalous and very public second act, the bizarre childlike behavior, the marriage to Lisa Marie Presley,
03:28and the devastating sexual abuse allegations that could be in part two.
03:34Do you know what I'm after?
03:37You want to be the biggest star in the world?
03:39There has not been a sequel announcement yet, but if Michael is a hit when it drops in theaters April
03:4424th, that is almost guaranteed.
03:51Coming up, Real Housewife Boz...
